Tom Barnett is the CEO of Barrett Management Company, based out of Phoenix, Arizona. The company runs 24 Burger King restaurants in Arizona, and recently won Burger King's "Franchisee of the Year" award. The prize was a new Corvette and a Rolex.

Abandoned as toddlers, two little girls who called each other "Meng Meng" and Xi Xi, pronounced, "Sing Sing," spent their first years of life in an orphanage in southern China. They became the best of friends, each a lifeline for the other in a lonely place.

Rows of small, unassuming gray headstones make up much of the tranquil Yokohama War Cemetery in remembrance of more than 1,500 Commonwealth servicemen who died in Japan as prisoners of war during World War II, or as part of the occupation afterward.